The calendar

EDITOR’S NOTE: Information for the Community Calendar should be submitted in writing, including the phone number of a contact person, no later than one week before the event. Mail to The Mining Journal, Attention: Newsroom/Community Calendar, Box 430, Marquette, MI 49855; fax to 906-228-2617; or email to rprusi@miningjournal.net, putting calendar in the subject line.

Blood drive — UP Health System-Marquette, through its U.P. Regional Blood Center, has a blood drive at Northiron Church, Ishpeming, with the bloodmobile from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. For an appointment, call Angie Meyer at 362-7280.

Personal Ministry Time — from noon-2 p.m., at New Life Church, Marquette. This ministry is for anyone with a need for physical, emotional or spiritual healing in their life. For more information, call 226-2333.

Streetcar — U.P. Shakespeare Festival will present Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” at Ore Dock Brewing Company at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $13 for seniors and students and $15 for others and are available at www.upshakes.org.

Summer at Richmond Township Library — Let’s Build Together is the Summer Reading Program at the Richmond Township Library, funded in part by the Community Foundation of Marquette County. This date from 11 a.m.-noon: Let’s Make Ice Cream. For more information visit www.uproc.lib.mi.us/rich or find the library’s Facebook page.

Harvey Kids — For the fourth year, Harvey Kids from the 1950s will gather on the last Monday in July. The gathering brings together Harvey kids from the 1950s plus “bus kids” from Skandia, Green Garden, West Branch and other areas. This year, the get-together for lunch and reminiscing will be at 11:30 a.m. at Bayou Bar and Grill in Harvey (the old Harvey Inn). Anyone who would like to attend is invited.

Alcoholics Anonymous — We Are Not Saints open meeting is at noon at 1009 W. Ridge St., Marquette. Call 228-6545.

Neighbors Night Out — Ishpeming Township’s Neighbors Night Out 150 year Celebration will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Ishpeming Township Hall, 1575 U.S. 41 West. The event will feature fire truck rides, a bounce house, giveaway drawings for kids bikes and local displays. Hot dogs, chips, pop and cake will be provided provided.

SMART Recovery — is an abstinence based recovery group that meets at 6 p.m. at 102 W. Washington St. Suite 114, Marquette. The program is based on scientific knowledge and reason. Spirituality, religion and higher powers are not part of the program. SMART Recovery is a program for all kinds of addictive behaviors. For more information call Mary at 906-362-1647, or go to SMART recovery.org

Bridge — is played at 6:30 p.m. at the Superiorland Bridge Club, next to MC Sports at the Westwood Mall, Marquette. Visit http://superiorland_bridge.tripod.com/ for more information or call Cerona at 249-3529 or Karen at 273-1716.

MCHD — Clinic Services available today at Marquette County Health Department are: HIV/AIDS Counseling and Testing, and Immunizations from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. A WIC Clinic will be held from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Bridge — is played at 1 p.m. at the Superiorland Bridge Club, next to MC Sports at the Westwood Mall, Marquette. Visit http://superiorland_bridge.tripod.com/ for more information or call Cerona at 249-3529 or Karen at 273-1716..

Tai Chi — at 1 p.m. at the Ishpeming Senior Center. Call 485-5527.

Chocolay Senior Drop-In Center — from 1-4 p.m. in the meeting room of the Chocolay Township Hall, Harvey. For social activities close to home and refreshments. This eliminates the morning session.

2017 Historical Bus Tours — 1 p.m., Marquette Regional History Center. The bus tour is an entertaining, narrated journey through Marquette. For the summer of 2017 the tours are commemorating World War I during the centennial of the Great War. advance purchase of tickets is strongly recommended. Tickets are available by calling 906-226-3571, visiting marquettehistory.org, or stopping by the Marquette Regional History Center during regular operating hours. Tickets are $20 for all tours and will embark from the History Center. Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable between tours. Arrive 10 minutes early to claim a seat and travel in an air-conditioned Checker Bus for the duration of the tour which is 90 minutes.